The Sweet Stench of Southwest Airlines

Sent to me by my friend Nikki McMaster:

Holiday Advent Calendar

My favorite day is day 4 - Slingshot Santa.

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Vegas:

So we stayed at the Venetian. Very nice. The spa was good - not great, but good. Not to sound snobby, but for the amount of money and the fact that it is a Canyon Ranch branch (hee, that rhymes) I expected a lot more.

Went to see the "impressionist" Gordie Brown. 80% of his impressions were done to music - he was pretty good. There was nothing else playing that we hadn't already seen.

We did some shopping - or rather Sally did. I didn't really buy anything - gasp, shock, horror! I know...was a bit depressing. I got 2 Christmas gifts and a pair of shoes for me...but I don't really consider that shopping considering the number of stores we went to! We went to the outlet malls, the shops in the Venetian, the shops in Caesar's as well as the shopping mall! I'm kind of shopped out - but I'm sure I'll be over that by tomorrow.

We went to Tao, the famous Asian restaurant that also has a nightclub and the service was awful. We thought about going up to the nightclub, but the queue was so long it was ridiculous. And, Paris Hilton wasn't there, so clearly no point in going.

Yesterday was the Las Vegas Marathon. I swear, the amount of walking we did while shopping and up and down the strip - we walked 26.2 miles ourselves! There were all these crazy marathoners who ran that morning and then high tailed it to the airport to make afternoon flights.

I sat next to two very nice marathoners, but then one of them decided to put those "Ben-Gay" pads on his knees...stunk up the entire plane. Between that and the little girl behind me singing her ABCs at the top of her lungs and constantly getting stuck on the letter "G"...well, let's just say thanks for the noise reducing headphones. Too bad I didn't have any nose plugs.